What's New with Astra

Deprecated:

• Filter ‘astra_single_banner_post_meta’ for single post meta markup has been deprecated instead use ‘astra_single_post_meta’.

Fix:

• get_option database call increase page loads for fetching theme options.
• exclude_from_search query parameter removed from get_post_types list to get CPTs under Customizer > Custom Post Types section, case of CartFlows Step custom post type.
• Archive – Title area 2 – Archive type title gets added as prefix on archive pages.
• Text transformed to ‘capitalize’ for single post titles & archive titles after 4.0.0.
• Single Post – “Read Time” option missing from metadata.
• Comment form fields should be stack on responsive devices.
• iframe breaks out of parent container on responsive devices.
• UI glitch typography input box control on Firefox browser.
• Multiple times fetching custom post types list callback executes for dynamic customizer.
• Theme preview showing title area on the banner section for the homepage.
• Importing wp-starter-content template on fresh setup overriding the existing site title.
• Dynamic customizer – Single-archive section titles and taxonomy meta names getting by its slug name instead of title.
• Admin dashboard’s Site Identity quick setting link redirecting to Header Builder > Logo section instead of redirecting to Site Identity section.

Improvement:

• Introducing filter ‘astra_dynamic_get_post_types_query_args’ for getting post types list to load further dynamic sections in customizer.

Fix:

• Header Builder – Visibility control options missing from header sections & respective element sections.
• Header Builder – Header or the elements on the frontend gets hide directly if previously back in past it got disabled temporary.
• Header Builder – Account – PHP error E_PARSE gives syntax error for customizer configurations.
• Smooth scroll to ID – Navigation hash link which redirect to other page’s section is not clickable.
• Archive type title gets added as prefix on archive pages.

New:

• Redesigned the entire admin area with better user experience. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/updates/astra-4 )
• Redesigned the entire mega menu area with better user experience. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/nav-menu-module/ )
• White Label – Agency icon field for re-branding software.
• Introduced admin bar quick links for easy navigation to edit Custom Layout & Page Header posts.
• Nav Menu – Custom icon & position support for mega menu items.
• Nav Menu – Enhanced options to customize the color and the background inside the mega menu.
• Nav Menu – Introducing divider color and styles for mega menu items.

Fix:

• Sidebar design tab in customizer does not show up when Colors & Background is disabled.
• Custom Layout – Specific selection rule not working correctly if multiple specific selections added in rule engine.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Content inside filter clipping when filter accordion is enabled.
• Single post – Top-Bottom inside container spacing is not work on mobile devices.
• Header Builder – Menu – Dropdown Menu on mobile device is not scrollable when Sticky Header is activated.
• PHP error when bsf-analytics data submitted for breadcrumb-position.
• Site title and tagline not displaying on Sticky Header after uploading different logo for sticky header.
• Blog/Archive – Enable/disable for Blog title & post meta does not work for blog layout 2 & 3.
• Scroll to top trigger position gets misaligned with padded layout.
• Sticky Header – Due to assigned custom margin to header, it gets misaligned.
• WooCommerce – Product catalog filter is not showing properly on mobile devices when modern layout is active.
• When WPML Multilingual CMS plugin is active custom Page Headers are not visible/working.
• WooCommerce – Variable product is not working with quick view.
• WooCommerce – Product gallery is not working in quick view.
• WooCommerce – Getting console error on product category pages when infinite scroll pagination-type is selected.
• Header Builder – Account – Text font family not working on the frontend.
• Custom Layout – Nested custom layouts not working on the frontend.

New:

• Redesigned the entire admin area with better user experience. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/updates/astra-4 )
• Narrow Width Container layout for Single Posts, Blogs/Archives & Pages. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/narrow-width-container-layout/ )
• Introduced Smooth scroll to ID option for smooth scrolling to section ID on one page site navigation.
• Added elegant starter-content theme support for wordpress.org preview & for fresh setup. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/replicating-the-screenshot/ )
• Added text decoration and text transform options to each customizer typography settings.
• Dynamic content layout & sidebar layout support added for all custom post types. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/how-to-use-dynamic-customizer-from-astra-4-0/ )
• Dynamic single & archive banner title area support for all custom post types. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/how-to-use-dynamic-customizer-from-astra-4-0/ )

Improvement:

• Moved Scroll to Top pro extension from addon to theme. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/scroll-to-top-pro/ )
• Redesigned customizer typography control’s UI for better experience.
• Customizer typography & color defaults updated to get better UI experience for fresh setup.
• Introduced new filter ‘astra_global_color_palette’ to extend default color palette settings.
• Block Editor – Editor experience improved in relation with the frontend.
• Responsive toggle selection customizer options replaced with new multi-selector control for better experience.
• Performance related customizer options moved to new admin dashboard under Settings tab.

Fix:

• Customizer’s responsive font-size control UI is misaligned.
• Off-canvas – Full screen – Mobile Menu gets very long scroll when Elementor plugin is activated.
• Full Width/Contained layout Layout is showing extra padding above in the Transparent Header.
• Block editor – Getting “wp.data.select( ‘core/editor’ )getBlocks()” console warning in editor as being deprecated in WordPress version 5.3.
• Block editor – Button background color gets overridden by core styles for Legacy block editor setup.
• Elementor Global button style overrides theme’s submenu button style.
• Getting console error in customizer when trying to update footer columns.
• Block editor – Color gradient angle input field not visible in the block settings.
• Block editor – Content background gets explicitly set to white in responsive view.
• WooCommerce – Sticky add to cart is not working on old header footer.
• Margin applying for the last child ‘li’ tag inside widget section.
• Block editor – Button background color gets overridden by core styles for the Legacy block editor setup.
• Customizer – Content background color reflections not working in customizer preview.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Variable product is not working with quick view.
• WooCommerce – Product gallery is not working in quick view.
• Custom Layout – When WPML Multilingual CMS plugin is active custom header/footers are not working. ( Props – https://wpml.org/errata/astra-pro-3-9-3-enabling-custom-layouts-blocks-loading-scripts-added-in-the-header-or-footer/ )

New:

• Header Builder – Menu – Filter to add mega menu compatibility with registered nav menus. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/mega-menu-support-for-all-builder-menus/ )
• Custom Layout – Custom action hook support added to trigger layout content or snippet on a specific location.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Recently viewed product feature.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Back to cart button feature.

Improvement:

• Custom Layout – Redesigned admin posts list & editor meta settings with better UI/UX.
• WooCommerce – Removed jQuery dependency from Quick View addon.
• Introduced action ‘astra_checkout_login_field_before’ to trigger custom snippet before WooCommerce checkout’s login fields.
• Introduced action ‘astra_checkout_login_field_after’ to trigger custom snippet after WooCommerce checkout’s login fields.
• Added notice to install Astra theme if plugin directly starts. (Props – https://gist.github.com/mattyza)
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Selected active variant style design updated via filter ‘astra_addon_update_wc_variant_style’.
• Page Header – Repeated target rule error notice type changed to warning notice type with disabling the trigger.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Single Product – Payment list styling is broken inside the quick view popup.
• WooCommerce – My Account – Placeholder added if product image is not available on the order and download section.
• WooCommerce – Composite product plugin compatibility on a single product.
• WooCommerce – Updated Related and Upsell products sub-option dependency.
• WooCommerce – Border removed on single product gallery sliders.
• Custom layout content before not working with the WPML targeted pages.
• WooCommerce – Quick view console error on all pages.
• Header Builder – Menu – Megamenu container get hides when hovering in between Top Offset spacing.
• W3 validation – WooCommerce – Quick view and Checkout’s Apply Coupon text having accessibility issues.
• Fatal error ‘Uncaught TypeError in Count function’ for invalid argument issue on the frontend for cache files, in some rare cases.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Password required when guest checkout is active.
• Header Builder – Menu – Active colour from sticky header options not applying to menu items.
• Custom Layout – Inside post/page content displays multiple times with entry content hooks used.
• WooCommerce – Remove product icon misalignment issue on the cart page with the safari browser.
• Builder – Account Element – Changed direction for submenu opening does not work for account menu. ( https://spectra-test.wpastra.com/docs/change-the-direction-for-submenu-opening/ )
• WooCommerce – Single Product – The product gallery looks improper when a single product layout builds using a theme builder layout and the first image large gallery option selected from the customizer setting.
• Footer Builder – Divider Element – Hide on Desktop option is not working.
• WooCommerce – Off-Canvas Sidebar Filters – Close link trigger is not crawlable due to javascript:void(0) href.
• Header Builder – Menu – Sub-menu background colour overrides the border-radius of the submenu in the customizer.

New:

• WooCommerce Cart – “Cart Page” click action introduced to redirect the user to the cart page.

Improvement:

• Added Spectra plugin compatibility for a better experience.
• WooCommerce Cart – Moved border width option for cart icon from the addon to theme.
• WooCommerce – Clear button is aligned on top for WooCommerce active filter widget when the “Chips” option is enabled.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Edit shortcut link assigned to sticky add to cart for easy navigation in respective customizer section.
• WooCommerce – Added product images for tablet users on the cart page.
• To have an elegant fresh setup UI, updated the customizer sidebar layout by default to No-Sidebar.
• WooCommerce Cart – Responsive slider option to adjust Slide-in Cart width for Desktop, Tablet, & Mobile devices.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Content background colour not working in the customizer preview.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Sale badge text is misaligned on the front end.
• WooCommerce – Custom image and icon support for payment section.
• WooCommerce – Payment list styling is broken inside quick view.
• Block Editor – Astra Meta settings do not save when the Custom Fields option is enabled from the preferences.
• Two search buttons are visible on the empty archive search result page.
• Disabled Astra meta setting for the Blog page, which does not work from meta box, as it acts like an archive page on the frontend.
• Megamenu spacing conflicts with the primary menu top offset option on mobile devices.
• WooCommerce – Cart icon size is not working on the starter template site.
• Top border showing up for related post section on a single post when Boxed & Content Boxed layout is active.
• Editor – External toggle controls reverse their direction due to the theme’s CSS.
• Block editor – Getting console error for reading properties of undefined for getEditedPostAttribute.

Improvement:

• Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.

New:

• WooCommerce – Checkout – Order summary & payment box background color options.

Improvement:

• Introduced filter ‘astra_addon_override_single_product_layout’ to enable/disable vertical & horizontal slider gallery layout in case if Single Product layout built using any page builder themer.
• Action ‘astra_addon_woo_quick_view_before’ for firing before Quick View popup trigger.
• WooCommerce – Introduced new JavaScript event ‘astraInfinitePaginationLoaded’ after shop infinite pagination loaded.

Fix:

• WooCommerce – Single Product – Default variation option not working with Change Dropdown to Buttons option in variable type product.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Gallery thumbnail slider not in sync when product variations changes.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – String ‘Customer information’ is not translatable.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Email validation not working for non admin users when trying to login through the checkout page when the modern layout is active.
• WooCommerce – My Account – Download items UI gets messed up in modern layout.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Login button font-size does not match with their surrounding label in modern checkout style.
• WooCommerce – Checkout – Country/Region misalignment in checkout form on single country selection when modern input style enabled.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Misalignment with quantity updater when vertical style is applied.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Product cards box shadow not working when old header footer is active.
• WooCommerce – Single Product – Product gallery missing when single product layout build using theme builder layouts.
• WooCommerce – Removing white background color being added to minicart icon when style is selected as outline.
• WooCommerce – ‘View Cart’ secondary link is hidden when product added to that cart from the single product page.
• WooCommerce – Shop – Active filter misalignment on the frontend.
• WooCommerce – Modern Checkout layout support for Germanized for WooCommerce plugin.
• Showing deprecated function warning on frontend after installing Elementor with theme.
• Customizer range slider control not accepting decimal values for ’em’ unit.
• Need to double click for dropdown menu to open sub-menus on desktop in rare cases.
• Blog – Infinite scroll is not working with Custom Post types.
• W3 validation – aria-label attribute is missing for button in Full search style.
• Updated product columns option dependency on individual Related and Upsell enable setting.